"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.

Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little
colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to
bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and I'm
toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily cope
with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun
starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps
the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even
on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point
after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the
moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy
image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the
printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as the two
previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on 'her' mat on the
kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks of putting so much as a
whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is once again shedding into the clean
laundry pile. None of them are seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the
computers, the top of the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its
about 13C, 55F in here at the moment.

Yowie